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the once in a blue moon post.
It's been a long time, but...i'm back ( Read more... ) -
paris in 3 and a Half
Having been here for less than 7 weeks, i presume, i've dredged through material to get through a European Politics Paper and some stuff about Machiavelli & Hobbes (i can almost barely comprehend both these guys). And soon, i've got to get through some Statistics based course, and American Politics. But it's looking good and i hope to disappear ( Read more... ) -
London Calling:
As you may now already have guessed, through my erratic post-midnight logins on MSN, and well, perhaps dropping hints through having some excellent day-breaks in London and elsewhere, that i am overseas, and in the United Kingdom (of Great Britain and Northern Ireland). Close to a town near Colchester, Essex. And yes, it's actually a 1 hour trip by ( Read more... ) -
eulogy for JBJ
Yesterday morning, Singapore lost one of it's most charismatic, thoughtful and fearless political figureheads, JBJ, or Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam. He passed away at Tan Tock Seng Hospital here in Singapore on the 30th September 2008, aged 82 ( Read more... ) -
my deep stall.
You know how it is when a jetplane starts to lose engine power & thrust (at high speed)? It stalls, and falls violently towards the ground ( Read more... ) -
china bashing
I think it's a pretty short-sighted and biased manner that many people, in particular the "China-lovers" would vehemently defend their motherland against the news reports carried out by the World's Media, in particular those niggly little events that came to light during the Olympic Games ( Read more... ) -
industrial strength rants
I find it ironic that Singaporeans and their leaders love celebrating the 9th of August. Yeah sure, NationalISM day, sure. Your Independence. We're a country that celebrates our independence, of which was achieved through being kicked out of Malaysia. Nope, we didn't fight for our right to exist, we didn't share the ideal that we should be standing ( Read more... ) -
10 Reasons why You should NOT consider studying in Australia.
Oh..of the lack of things to do on a Sunday morning...I know, this is crap but i'm feeling silly and i have nothing else better to write. But i guess, most of what you're going to read below is as true as it can get ( Read more... ) -
the shambles of singapore
I've been hearing good things about Al-Jazeera (English) News, and it's a darned pity that the channel is over on the other Cable TV Provider, so i'm stuck with BBC and CNN. This kind of reports are the bread-and-butter for CNN, BBC etc but i never expected Al-Jaz to come up with something this...insightful, as of yet ( Read more... ) -
geezerspeaks.
Whew ( Read more... )
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